instead of getting Real or Quicktime, grab the Real and Quicktime Alternative .... it's actually Media Player Classic coupled with real and quicktime plugins.... very powerful... very useful.... no spyware... i have been using it as my default player for months with no problem...

Fwink ~ http://lundie.ca/fwink/
WebCam Software for taking shots at specific intervals and uploading to an FTP/Website.

FileZilla ~ http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Quite simply (in my opinion) the best FTP client available, I switched from using CuteFTP Pro to using this as my main client, many friends have also switched to this too.(note: not related to the Mozilla project in any way)

Open Office ~ http://www.openoffice.org/
Like Microsoft Office, but free. Personally I wouldn't say that it could completely replace my copy of Office XP, but it's improving all the time, and I'd definately use it if I hadn't got Office XP.

Media Player Classic.. very cool. I'm sick of the spyware and crap with RealPlayer and MP9. Good ? can you run WMPC if you already have WMP9 installed. I don't think I want to uninstall WMP9 just because I think Gates has a self destruct button that will go off if you try deleted any of his stuff.

Is there a direct link for d/l for MPC. I couldn't find it at the above site.

Originally posted by Napalmnthemorni Media Player Classic.. very cool. I'm sick of the spyware and crap with RealPlayer and MP9. Good ? can you run WMPC if you already have WMP9 installed. I don't think I want to uninstall WMP9 just because I think Gates has a self destruct button that will go off if you try deleted any of his stuff.

Is there a direct link for d/l for MPC. I couldn't find it at the above site.

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I have WMP9 on mine with classic media player, it runs great - just uncheck all the file associations in wmp9 and check all them in classic media player to be your default.

I will point out that I have found that in order to do some streaming (like if it is in the webpage and not an external app) you still have to have real player, wmp9, and quicktime installed .. I don't like that about it, other than that it uses a lot less resources and starts faster than the others do ...

This freeware thread keeps on popping up and the same software are usually listed over and over again. Oh well, guess there's no harm in listing my freeware site once again:http://decentdownloads.freeservers.com
Other than incredimail and opera which are adware, the rest are generally my favourite freeware.

actually, to use the streaming capability of MPC you don't have to install quicktime or real.... you just need the dll's ... that's what Real and Quicktime Alternative for... they install all the necessary dll's, registry, and plugins...

p/s: i loath WMP9 so much that i disabled it. just go to Control Panel -> Add/Remove Program -> Set Program Access and Defaults... then under "Choose default media player", uncheck the "Enable Access to this program" check box

Originally posted by l0g0ut actually, to use the streaming capability of MPC you don't have to install quicktime or real.... you just need the dll's ... that's what Real and Quicktime Alternative for... they install all the necessary dll's, registry, and plugins...

p/s: i loath WMP9 so much that i disabled it. just go to Control Panel -> Add/Remove Program -> Set Program Access and Defaults... then under "Choose default media player", uncheck the "Enable Access to this program" check box

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Before I ran the prog I uninstalled Real Player and ran the prog, I tried to play a real media file, it came up with an error saying "in order to run real media files you need to have real player installed"

It also won't play Quicktime files without quicktime installed, I have a couple of quicktime files and it won't play any of those ..